From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: problem with font lock Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:14:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87zl4fftv2.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263560924 24357 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2010 13:08:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:08:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 14:08:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVlul-0003E8-Dl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:08:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVlum-0006FZ-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVlug-0006EV-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVlub-0006BS-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34810 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVlua-0006BB-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43939) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVlua-0007Q5-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NVluX-00037p-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from 74.red-80-24-4.staticip.rima-tde.net ([80.24.4.74]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:08:21 +0100 Original-Received: from jao by 74.red-80-24-4.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:08:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.red-80-24-4.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: jao X-URL: Cancel-Lock: sha1:BptbCAmH7n2c25bdESL596w2ku4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120051 Archived-At: hi, i'm experiencing an intermittent problem with font lock that i don't know how to debug (this is emacs 23.1.91 packaged for debian). every now and then, font lock just stops working in most (but not all) of the buffers: the extant colors remain, but new text is not coloured at all (e.g., if i comment a line out, the line's text retains its initial faces instead of switching to the comment face). as i said, i haven't found a way to reproduce this behaviour deterministically, and when it starts happening i don't see any error message around. so my question is: what would you recommend to look at when i enter this state, so that i can submit a useful bug report? thanks! jao